[136118] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Feb 1 10:04:07 2011
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:04:01 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5D2659F3-5853-4C1C-A26D-D6EB5AA75195@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/1/2011 12:03 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> The rest... All those TiVOs, Laptops, Desktops, iPads, etc. all need
> public addresses anyway, so, why bother with the ULA?
>
I think ULA is still useful for home networks. If the home router guys
properly generate the ULA dynamically, it should stop conflicts within
home networking. There's something to be said for internal services
which ULA can be useful for, even when you do fall off the net.
Jack
